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Mineral Specimens with Aragonite
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A fine small cab specimen from the recent one-time find in Nevada. We liked these so well that we bought the whole lot - not only as a really significant and beautiful new occurrence for aragonite and an exciting new US find, but simply gorgeous mineral specimens. This one has a nice mix of small clusters with large, isolated ones that are perched at the top of the matrix, contrasting with the dark rust color of the limonite. 6.4 x 5.8 x 3.9 cm
Classic well-formed aragonite crystals from defunct areas of the sulfurmining district here. Fluorescent! ex. Dr. Gary Hansen dealer stock and not shown since early 1980s. The Giumentaro mine is closed from 1984 and these pieces
are mined about 1970-1980 (level -430 meters),
9.2 x 7.2 x 5.8 cm
12.0 x 11.0 x 6.0 cm. A stunning, cabinet example of the aragonites from this one-time find of a couple of years ago - not only beautiful, but an important new find of aragonite from anywhere, much less America. This super piece has a unique flower bouquet look, with tiny crystals growing like teeth on an earlier generation of sharp, larger crystals. This is not only a large specimen, but the crystals really stick up off the matrix in bold relief, in a series of interconnected bursts of crystals framed by the contrasting iron-rich matrix.
2.6 x 2.4 x 1.4 and 2.6 x 2.4 x 1.5 cm. Here is a wonderful thumbnail set consisting of a crystal of Aragonite and a pseudomorph of Copper after Aragonite from the famous locality of Corocoro. These floater specimens are well known from Bolivia for their great form and color, and this set is great way to illustrate the "before and after" effect which is rare to find for most pseudomorphs, especially from the same locality. These pieces are some of the most well known and highly sought after pseudomorphs around. This set is a very fine example of this material, and it was very difficult to find a pair of specimens that matched so well for shape and especially size. There hasn't been any significant amount of these specimens on the market in approximately 25 years, and they are often only found in old collections.
10.0 x 4.8 x 4.5 cm. A stunning cabinet example of the aragonites from this one-time find - not only beautiful, but an important new find of aragonite from anywhere, much less America. This super piece has a striking, mounded ball at one end of the aesthetic, elongate matrix. The ball is covered with tiny crystals growing like teeth on an earlier generation of sharp, larger crystals. This is not only a large specimen, but the crystals really stick up off the matrix in bold relief, in a series of interconnected bursts of crystals framed by the contrasting iron-rich matrix.
2.4 x 2.1 x 1.3 (each). Here is a wonderful thumbnail set consisting of a crystal of Aragonite and a pseudomorph of Copper after Aragonite from the famous locality of Corocoro. These floater specimens are well known from Bolivia for their great form and color, and this set is great way to illustrate the "before and after" effect which is rare to find for most pseudomorphs, especially from the same locality. These pieces are some of the most well known and highly sought after pseudomorphs around. This set is a very fine example of this material. There hasn’t been any significant amount of these specimens on the market in approximately 25 years, and they are often only found in old collections.
7.5 x 5.0 x 4.8cm. A very sculptural and beautiful specimen of two pairs of translucent, brick-red aragonite stalactites on limestone from a most uncommon Montana locale - Carter County. Carter County is in extreme southeastern Montana in the Paleozoic Williston Basin, an area not known for fine mineral specimens. Obviously from a cavern there. Uncommon material collected long ago and now hard to obtain.
5.8 x 5.7 x 4.0 cm. Richard Barstow was a well-known English dealer, collector and field collector. This very fine, ununusual, old-time piece is from the Florence Mine at Egremont. Stacked, brecciated, hematite fragments are coated and cemented with calcite. One side is beautifully accented with scattered balls of aragonite needles, while the other side is richly coated with scintillating, metallic, hematite flakes called specularite. Classic combination material from this historic locale. Ex. Richard Barstow Collection.
9.7 x 7.4 x 6.4 cm. A fine example of the aragonites from this one-time find a couple of years ago - not only beautiful, but an important new find of aragonite from anywhere, much less America. They have a unique look, with tiny crystals growing like teeth on an earlier generation of sharp, larger crystals. This is not only a fairly large specimen, but the crystals really stick up off the matrix in bold relief on both sides, in a series of interconnected bursts of crystals framed by the contrasting iron-rich matrix.
4.1 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm. Here is a wonderful miniature size specimen of the famous pseudomorphs of Copper after Aragonite from Corocoro. These floater specimens are well-known from Bolivia for their great form and color, and this piece has the classic and unique pseudo-hexagonal form that has made these pieces some of the most well known and highly sought after pseudomorphs around. This specimen is a very fine example of this material, especially considering that it hosts multiple crystals. There is actually one small, white exposed crystal of un-pseudomorphed Aragonite on one end of the piece as well. There hasn't been any significant amount of these specimens on the market in approximately 25 years, and they are often only found in old collections.
10.3 x 6.8 x 6.4 cm. An impressive, old-time, cabinet-sized cluster of large aragonite variety tarnowitzite crystals from the Tsumeb Mine. The very large, to 5.5 cm, pearlescent crystals have pyramidal terminations with tapered bodies. All of the myriad major crystals are damage-free. Ex. John Ydren Collection and according to his label, he obtained this piece from dealer Willard Perkin in 1961.
13.7 x 13.0 x 8.8 cm. Cabinet Sicilian sulphur and calcite after aragonite stalactites of this striking, old-time quality are seldom available. Two large, to 7.0 cm, glassy, bright, canary-yellow sulphur crystals are dramatically inset amongst a jackstraw cluster of sparkly calcite pseudomorphing sharp, flat-terminated aragonite crystals from Sicily. Accompanied by an old, faded label in German. I would assume that this is pre-World War I material.
6.6 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm. A fine example of the aragonites from this one-time from a couple of years ago - not only beautiful, but an important new find of aragonite from anywhere, much less America. They have a unique look, with tiny crystals growing like teeth on an earlier generation of sharp, larger crystals. The crystals really stick up off the matrix in bold relief, in a series of interconnected bursts of crystals framed by the contrasting iron-rich matrix.
15.0 x 10.3 x 9.2 cm. A striking, very sculptural, large cabinet sulphur on aragonite specimen from the famous mines at Agrigento, Italy. Vivid, canary-yellow, gemmy and lustrous sulphur crystals richly cover the undulating, fluted matrix covered with translucent, lustrous, tan aragonite crystals. Superb pink fluorescence on the aragonite. Classic, older and impressive material from this historic locale. Ex. Robert Fender Collection and dates to the 1960s or early 1970s.
7.3 x 6.5 x 5.8 cm. Mineral specimens are rare indeed from the ancient emery mines at Naxos Island, Greece, mined for emery by the Classical Greeks. The vuggy matrix is probably metabauxite. A really pretty, 1.7 cm radial, starburst-like spray of lustrous, colorless aragonite prisms rests above a euhedral, glassy, tabular, 1.3 cm, partially coated anorthite crystal. This old-time specimen certainly dates to the 19th Century and is from the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collection.
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